Re: Aero? (Home Premium)

Guys:

My driver is up to date. Everyting I checked on Google says in effect "some programs can't run Aero, and it's shut down automatically." Well, that's understandable, but I shut down everything but my AV software, and still don't even see the Aero scheme as available.

Re: Aero? (Home Premium)

Do you have Vista Home Basic?
If so, Aero is not included in there.
If not, make sure that your computer has at least:
1 gigahertz processor
1 gig of RAM
128 MB of Video RAM.
If those do not help, then I'm stumped.

Re: Aero? (Home Premium)

I just talked to HP, and they said that it would seem that my easiest (and bets) alternative, if I'm willing to spend the time, is to back it all up, and then do a recovery (back to original settings) and then watch to see what caused it to be blocked...

Re: Aero? (Home Premium)

Guys:

OK, here's the status:

I backed up everyting, and then did a Recovery -- back to the original "in the door" state. Aero was there.

Installed several pieces of software. Aero still there.

Went to System Properties / Advanced / Performance. There there were several sttings that turned off Aero. If you select "Custom", there are different combinations that work, and those that do not. If in fact you set it for "Best Performance", Aero gets turned off, which is strange, since documentation I've seen from MS and on the netsays differently.

That still doesn't answer why my Aero colo scheme got deleted.

Anyway, that ends THAT issue. Now I fight the typeface battle -- different thread.

Re: Aero? (Home Premium)

I'd like to know what documentation says anything differently about Aero. It has been well know since the beta process of Vista that Aero consumes more resources than non-Aero. So, setting the system for 'best performance' might logically be thought to disable features that consume resources that are not required for the OS to function properly.

Once again, I'd urge you to not mess with system settings until you've had a chance to get used to Vista. AND you've read about it. It is different.

Re: Aero? (Home Premium)

You need to be aware of what the terms mean in all these settings. I've always taken "Better performance" to mean using less system resources. That means an increased workload on a machine won't slow it down as much as it might otherwise. That does not mean faster or slower necessarily under your circumstances. Performance is a product of all machine resources interacting under your workload. These days you are much better off just using a system and then reacting through diagnosis and analysis to resolve perfromance issues rather than trying to tweak something ahead of time.